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Where can I get some swingarm spacers made in the UK?

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Wenman:
Morning!

Can anyone recommend a good engineer shop that could lathe up some spacers for me?

Obviously within the UK, I’m located in Devon but I assume most places can deliever them!

Thanks

Alan

Johnwebley:


  any competent engineering company,

  just provide a basic drawing and dimensions .


  http://www.hmsengineering.co.uk/

 this is who I use,and they are brilliant .

matthewmosse:
Buy a lathe if you need much doing. They pay for themselfs very fast in my experience.

K2-K6:
I trained in engineering,  but wish I'd learnt more about economics so I could afford to spend more on engineering  ;D

Matthewmosse,  now you've got me looking at myford add listings  :D although a nice Hardinge would be good,  or a  Colchester 2000. See what you've done  ;D

matthewmosse:
Lathes are simple  to use, I taught myself after 5 minutes tuition at a work experience placement - saw the possibilities bought a brand new warco machine, which took a few years saving up to buy plus bought an old tuition book ' machine tool operation' I think it paid for itself inside of 5 years. Of course it's another way to spend yet more money, chucks cost £100 and various other tools become neccessarily as jobs crop up, but it's very very handy to have. I now have 3 excluding the dedicated woodwork machines - the latest ones a 1920's treadle lathe bought off Facebook for £100. Was seized solid and covered in 60 years of dust and rust when collected. It's now functional and rather appealing looking in its patinated old paint wiped over with an oily rag. Operates amazingly smoothly and has a  full set of thread cutting gears - amazingly the only dammaged gear was available new in a very similar pattern so was a simple job to modify the replacement to fit. Only  downside to the lathe being so old seems to be that chucks and other accessories may not be readily available with the right headstock thread - that lathe will be required to make an adapter for my 1914 lathe to carry alternative chucks as  the treadle lathe can cut stupidly coarse threads. Once that is done I'lll be able to skim and re line drum brakes without stripping the wheels down to a bare hub, in fact it will  with the right chuck be able to mount a cb550 wheel up with the tyre still fitted. I didn't do metalworking st school - that class was oversubscribed and I had the best language skills of the bunch who wanted to do wood and metalwork so I had to study German instead. I did a year of blacksmithing but lathes were not covered.

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